Besides providing clients with the ability to completely submerge themselves in three-dimensional kitchens, Ikea’s virtual reality app, titled “Ikea VR Experience”, now lets users cook virtual meatballs in them.

MasterBrand's Thomasville kitchen cabinets beat out IKEA for the top spot in J.D. Power's 2016 customer satisfaction survey, with strong ranking for order and delivery. IKEA had held the top spot since 2014.

JOLIET, Ill. – Swedish ready-to-assemble furniture maker and retailer IKEA has begun construction on its new Midwest distribution center located in Joliet, Illinois - 48 miles southwest of Chicago. Set to open in the spring of 2018, the approximately 1.25-million-square-foot distribution center will be designed and built by Gray Construction, a nationally recognized engineering, architecture and construction firm. Gray has designed and built more than 250 distribution facilities across the U.S., including other IKEA distribution centers.

Cabinet maker John McDonald tells how he built his Duarte, Calilifornia business using high end upgrades to IKEA cabinetry. The 2016 Cabinets & Closets Conference keynoter plans private label brands, multi-city showrooms, and expects sales to rise 50 percent to $6 million this year.

IKEA Foundation teamed with the United Nations in 2010 to create shelters designed to be flat-packed like an IKEA bookshelf. The group recently responded to claims that its units were unsafe.

Timing is everything, IKEA has learned, after an Indonesian supreme court ruling upheld a local furniture company's right to use the Swedish furniture and retail giant's trademark name after it had not been used commercially in the country for three consecutive years.

A Copenhagen, Denmark cabinetry design firm says it will begin producing kitchen projects for its soon-to-open Brooklyn, New York design operation, engaging high-end architects to create kitchens using the IKEA cabinet lines as a basis.

Scandinavian furniture giant IKEA is testing a program to get customers to bring in their old furniture, both IKEA and other brands, and rewarding them with vouchers for new purchases. IKEA stores in France and Belgium accept the vouchers, and the old furniture is then recycled or re-sold.

A Swiss firm will build temporary wood huts for Middle East refugees after an IKEA version failed to meet fire resistance standards. The Swiss city, housing 250 refugees in hall nine of the Messe Oerlikon trade show campus, plans to accept another 780 refugees in January.

An IKEA hack: See how Chris Heider took seven standard IKEA kitchen cabinets and some framing lumber to create a platform bed with storage space.